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A Farewell From Fish Fry Chronicles

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All,

I wanted to update you on 2019.  The tour is going to continue, but the Fish Fry Chronicles blog is retiring, effective March 1. I’ve enjoyed writing the posts and the tour will go on this, but due to time constraints, I will be unable to continue blogging.  If you would like to follow along with the tour, I will keep posting to my Instagram (@fishfrychronicles) as time permits.  Before Lent begins, I will post one last schedule for 2019.  You will also see a new layout shortly that will allow for easier navigation to old posts.  Changes TBD.

For anyone who has been reading and learning, thank you.  For those who have joined on the weekly travels, thank you.   May you all have a wonderful Lent.

-TM

A Farewell From Fish Fry Chronicles

Lenten Reflections, March 6-11

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“In her voyage across the ocean of this world, the Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life’s different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship but to keep her on her course.”
– St. Boniface

 

“Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.”
— C.S. Lewis

 

 

“The fast of Lent has no advantage to us unless it brings about our spiritual renewal. It is necessary while fasting to change our whole life and practice virtue. Turning away from all wickedness means keeping our tongue in check, restraining our anger, avoiding all gossip, lying and swearing. To abstain from these things— herein lies the true value of the fast.”

— St. John Chrysostom

 

“It is not that I want merely to be called a Christian, but to actually be one. Yes, if I prove to be one, then I can have the name.”
— St. Ignatius of Antioch

 

“We are Christians, and strangers on earth. Let none of us be frightened; our native land is not in this world.”
— St. Augustine

 

“Prayer purifies us, reading instructs us. Both are good when both are possible. Otherwise, prayer is better than reading.”
— St. Isidore of Seville
Lenten Reflections, March 6-11

Lenten Reflections, March 3-5

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“O Sacred Heart of Jesus, fountain of eternal life, Your Heart is a glowing furnace of Love. You are my refuge and my sanctuary.”
— St. Gertrude the Great

 

“Now man need not hide from God as Adam did; for He can be seen through Christ’s human nature. Christ did not gain one perfection more by becoming man, nor did He lose anything of what He possessed as God. There was the Almightiness of God in the movement of His arm, the infinite love of God in the beatings of His human heart and the Unmeasured Compassion of God to sinners in His eyes. God was now manifest in the flesh; this is what is called the Incarnation. The whole range of the Divine attributes of power and goodness, justice, love, beauty, were in Him. And when Our Divine Lord acted and spoke, God in His perfect nature became manifest to those who saw Him and heard Him and touched Him. As He told Philip later on: Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father [John 14:9].”
— Fulton J. Sheen 

 

“Man threw away everything he had—his right to speak freely, his communion with God, his time in Paradise, his unclouded life—and went out naked, like a survivor from a shipwreck. But God received him and immediately clothed him, and taking him by the hand gradually led him to heaven. And yet the shipwreck was quite unforgivable. For this tempest was entirely due, not to the force of the winds, but to the carelessness of the sailor. Yet God did not look at this, but had compassion for such a great disaster. … Why? Because, when no sadness or care or labor or toil or countless waves of desire assaulted our nature, it was overturned and fell. And just as criminals who sail the sea often drill through the ship with a small iron tool, and let the whole sea into the ship from below, so when the devil saw the ship of Adam (by which I mean his soul) filled with many good things, he came and drilled through it with his voice alone, as if it were an iron tool, and stole all his wealth and sank the ship itself. But God made the gain greater than the loss, and brought our nature to the royal throne.”
— St. John Chrysostom 

 

Lenten Reflections, March 3-5

Lenten Reflections, March 1 and 2

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“Put aside your hatred and animosity. Take pains to refrain from sharp words. If they escape your lips, do not be ashamed to let your lips produce the remedy, since they have caused the wounds. Pardon one another so that later on you will not remember the injury. The recollection of an injury is itself wrong. It adds to our anger, nurtures our sin and hates what is good. It is a rusty arrow and poison for the soul. It puts all virtue to flight.”
— St. Francis of Paola

 

“Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book.”
— St. John Bosco
Lenten Reflections, March 1 and 2

Lenten Reflections, February 23-26

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“A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.”
— St. Dominic

 

“I will go anywhere and do anything in order to communicate the love of Jesus to those who do not know Him or have forgotten Him.”
— St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

 

 “Reach up as high as you can today, and God will reach down the rest of the way.” ~Padre Pio 

 

“Great love can change small things into great ones, and it is only love which lends value to our actions.”
— St. Faustina Kowalska
Lenten Reflections, February 23-26

Lenten Reflections, February 20-22

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Apologies for the tardiness on reflections.  I’m posting 3 days worth for today:

“Build an oratory within yourself, and there have Jesus on the altar of your heart. Speak to Him often while you are doing your work. Speak to Him of His holy love, of His holy sufferings and of the sorrows of most holy Mary.”
— St Paul of the Cross

 

“Undertake courageously great tasks for God’s glory, to the extent that he’ll give you power and grace for this purpose. Even though you can do nothing on your own, you can do all things in him. His help will never fail you if you have confidence in his goodness. Place your entire physical and spiritual welfare in his hands. Abandon to the fatherly concern of his divine providence every care for your health, reputation, property, and business; for those near to you; for your past sins; for your soul’s progress in virtue and love of him; for your life, death, and especially your salvation and eternity—in a word, all your cares. Rest in the assurance that in his pure goodness, he’ll watch with particular tenderness over all your responsibilities and cares, arranging all things for the greatest good.”

— St. John Eudes

 

“We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God.”
— St. Francis de Sales
Lenten Reflections, February 20-22

Thursday After Ash Wednesday Reflection

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“We must cultivate that sacred silence which makes people remember the words of Jesus: See how they love one another. How often we find ourselves speaking of the faults of another. How often our conversation is about someone who is not present. Yet see the compassion of Christ toward Judas, the man who received so much love yet betrayed his own master. But the master kept the sacred silence and did not betray Judas. Jesus could have easily spoken in public—as we often do—telling the hidden intentions and deeds of Judas to others. But he didn’t. Instead, he showed mercy and charity. Rather than condemning Judas, he called him his friend.”
— St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta 

 

Thursday After Ash Wednesday Reflection

Welcome Back + Fish Fry Schedule 2018

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Welcome back readers!  I’ve been out a while (end of Lent 2017 was…eventful to say the least).  Nonetheless, I’m hoping to get you back some more great content.

One thing friends and followers will notice in the schedule below is that there are a lot of repeat visits from prior years.  I’m getting close to having attended every parish fish fry in Louisville, so naturally, we will be re-visiting old places and seeing old faces.  That said, those repeats are also good repeats, so I don’t mind going back.  On top of the Friday schedule below, I may even make a venture to a lunch fish fry this Lent.  Stay tuned!

Also, just like last year, I will be posting daily Lenten reflections to go with the fish fry reviews.  Hope you enjoy!

Date Location Address Time
February 16, 2018 St. Margaret Mary 7813 Shelbyville Rd., Louisville, Ky., 40222 5:30
February 23, 2018 St. Joseph 1406 E Washington St., Louisville, Ky., 40206 5:00
March 2, 2018 Ascension 4600 Lynnbrook Dr., Louisville, Ky., 40220 6:15
March 9, 2018 Guardian Angels 6000 Preston Hwy., Louisville, Ky., 40219 6:15
March 16, 2018 St. Patrick 1000 N. Beckley Station Rd., Louisville, Ky., 40245 6:30
March 23, 2018 St. Martin of Tours 639 S Shelby St., Louisville, Ky., 40202 6:00
March 30, 2018 St. Paul 6901 Dixie Highway, Louisville, Ky., 40258 6:15
Welcome Back + Fish Fry Schedule 2018